Octuplets mum delighted with offers to tell story

The mother of the world’s longest-living octuplets is being deluged with offers for book deals, TV shows and other business proposals, but has not decided what she might do other than care for her children, her newly-hired spokeswoman said today.

Hundreds of requests have been made since Nadya Suleman gave birth to six boys and two girls a week ago, said Joann Killeen, president of Killeen Furtney Group, a public relations company.

“She’s the most sought after mom in the world right now,” Ms Killeen said. “Everyone wants to talk to her.”

But Ms Suleman, who remains in hospital with her children at California’s Kaiser Permanente’s Bellflower Medical Centre, had not decided what she would do next, Ms Killeen said.

“Right now her top priority is to be the best mom she can be to all her children. She’s hired us to manage all of those opportunities.”

The spokeswoman discounted some published reports that Ms Suleman had already decided to host a television show on parenting, but added that she did want to eventually tell her story to the world.

“As soon as she’s able, she will tell her story, and it’s an amazing story,” she said.

Suleman, a 33-year-old single mother, already had six children, aged two to seven, when she gave birth to her octuplets on January 26.

Her babies continued to grow stronger, the hospital said, but it was not immediately known when they or their mother would be discharged. At the time of the births, doctors said the babies would stay about two months.

Ms Suleman’s mother Angela said last week that her daughter had always loved children and had wanted to be a mother since her teens.

She had all 14 of her children through IVF, according to her mother, who is caring for the other six while her daughter is in hospital.